Difficulty: Easy This is an easy (albeit very taxing) trail that spans the entirety of Cherry Creek. The trail begins at Platte River Trail in Confluence Park in Denver – the spot where a gold discovery in 1858 marked the city’s founding. Choose how far you would like to travel – th...
showing they were engaged in labor between here and California. In her bookDenver’s Chinatown: Gone but not ForgottenJinyi Song acknowledges that Chinese miners were among the many that flocked to the Pikes Peak area by the discovery of gold but also points...
But the discovery in November 1858 of gold in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado[29] (then part of the western Kansas Territory)[30] brought on a gold rush and a consequent flood of white immigration across Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.[29] Colorado territorial officials pressured federal ...
In July 1858, William Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek in the present-day suburb of Englewood that yielded about 20 troy ounces of gold, the first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. News spread rapidly; hundreds of m...
Inside a converted warehouse are an 1898 Renault coupe, Amelia Earhart's immaculately maintained "Goldbug," and a Big Boy steam locomotive, among other historic vehicles. Other exhibits in this eccentric museum consist of antique bicycles, cable cars, and even experimental car-planes. This trivia...
The site served as an early stopping place forArapahoIndians, fur trappers, and traders. With the discovery of gold in June 1858, therivaltowns ofAuraria and St. Charles were founded on opposite sides of Cherry Creek. The claim of St. Charles was soon jumped by William Larimer, Jr., who...
With the discovery of gold in June 1858, the rival towns of Auraria and St. Charles were founded on opposite sides of Cherry Creek. The claim of St. Charles was soon jumped by William Larimer, Jr., who in November 1858 renamed it Denver City for James W. Denver, governor of the ...